Healthy Body and Soul

How many times are you watching a news program, reading a magazine or just glance over at a billboard and find how much saturation of “health and wellness” is stressed upon us? We are instructed to keep our bodies healthy with exercise & good food choices. We are instructed to make good decisions on our choices along with self discipline to follow through with the commitment to live healthy for a longer life. If you are like me, there are just some days that you just want to be “bad” and have that ice cream or hamburger. There are days I just detest exercise! It is continual discipline not to have every day a “bad day.” Then why is their not as much emphasis or discipline on the importance of keeping our souls also healthy? We are to exercise a healthy soul by our actions and how we honor God and how we represent Him to others. We are to feed our souls with “good healthy choices” by reading His word, believing, faith, praise, prayers and maintaining an intimate relationship with Him. Keeping our soul healthy still requires discipline as there is also discipline in keeping our bodies healthy. Our bodies will fade, but maintaining a healthy soul prepares us for eternity. No one will choose intentionally for you or for me to be healthy in body and soul. We must wake up each morning and keep choosing for ourselves to keep pursuing an intentional healthy body & soul. We must make deliberate choices and to care for our body and our soul. We must lay down our desires for our will and live for His Will. I know that I will have “bad days” in attending to my soul. There have been times when the line was too long, or I was too tired and I may have not represented Him the way He would have wanted. Sometimes it is hard to smile and be grateful for those lines. And then I get back to the car and realize those were perfect missed opportunity to feed my soul and represent Him with discussions with others. So, just as it is a daily continual thing to make good decisions with my health, it is also and even more important to make good decisions for my soul. How about you, have you fed your soul today with good decisions that impact your life, your eternal life? (( hugs until next time ))